One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life (Hardcover) by Mitch Horowitz

from AquariusNat

It's a well-researched book . But also very boring . The author spends most of the book discussing the people involved in the movement and very little discussion devoted to the ideas . If you're looking for a biography on the people , then you might like this book . But not if you're expecting mo...

from LivelyLady

As this was about positive thinking, I thought it was a self-help book. I did not know it would follow the history of positive thinking, the psychological and religious turns it has taken since the mid 1800s. It was certainly comprehensive and well researched. I could imagine it as a text book fo...

from juju2cat

I gave this a 2 mostly for the author's in-depth research on this subject. I found the majority of this book to be excruciatingly boring and yet found myself continuing on with it. The author makes valid points with his views, just as people taking placebo medications often feel better BECAUSE of...

from jaden

This book takes you from the early days of positive thinking, Christian Science and various other schools of thought, but covers their history in such detail that it became a chore to read. The content was accurate but extremely dry, to the point of exhaustion. It was as if the author wanted to u...

from dulcinea14

Thorough and well-researched, nicely written, my only complaint was one of execution. I expected a common conceptual thread to emerge throughout the book (to aid in my understanding of these various metaphysical philosophies), but it never did for me. It provided a good history of the individuals...